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Henry Waldgrave Stuart
1870–1951
A quiet but formative figure in early American philosophy, this Stanford professor helped build the university’s philosophy program from its fragile beginnings into a lasting department. His writing ranges from big questions about mind, reality, and naturalism to thoughtful work on higher education.
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Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude
by Boyd Henry Bode, Harold Chapman Brown, John Dewey, Horace Meyer Kallen, George H. Mead, Addison Webster Moore, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts
About the author
Henry Waldgrave Stuart (1870–1951) was an American philosopher best known for his long career at Stanford University. Stanford’s own history of the department says he was hired in 1907 after studying with John Dewey at the University of Chicago and teaching at Wake Forest College. Over the next three decades, he became one of the central figures in philosophy at Stanford during a period when the subject was still finding its place there.
At Stanford, he taught widely in ethics, logic, metaphysics, epistemology, evolutionary theory, and the history of philosophy. The department credits him and his colleagues with helping philosophy grow steadily: graduate courses began in 1921, the program expanded in the 1920s, and by 1936 Stanford was offering a Ph.D. in philosophy, the same year Stuart became emeritus.
Stuart also wrote on both philosophy and education. Works associated with him include Liberal and Vocational Studies in the College and essays on naturalism, showing a thinker interested not only in abstract ideas but also in what a university education should be for.